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Figure 1.
Variations in CO2, temperatures and sea levels through the 600,000 years of the glacial-interglacial record deduced from Greenland and Antarctic ice cores.
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2011/20110118_MilankovicPaper.pdf
The upper diagram plots temperature and radiative forcing anomalies in Watt/m2. Note the increase in radiative forcing by >2 Watt/m2 since the 18th century. The lower plot correlates CO2 with sea level changes.
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Dr Andrew Glikson is an Earth and paleoclimate scientist at the Research School of Earth Science, the School of Archaeology and Anthropology and the Planetary Science Institute, Australian National University.